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It’s impossible, even in principle, to imagine a world without HTML, isn’t it? Certainly, there are various ways to convey textual content… but textual information will itself be a means… Can you imagine a world without HTML? How about PDF?

Here’s a conversation I have quite often with CIOs and IT managers, not to mention ECM industry people. It usually starts like this: ME: Does your ECM system support PDF documents? CIO: Of course our ECM system supports PDF! I look at PDFs on it everyday! Just about everything in the system is a PDF! That’s always good to know. OK, so then I ask… ME: So, you know how you can add notes to…

We already know that PDF documents are the format of choice for final contracts, invoices, manuals and many other documents businesses keep on their own computers, even if they also store them in a cloud repository. But is it the same story online? Do users tend to post Word files? Would they prefer to integrate PowerPoint slides directly into web pages, or do they post a PDF instead? For this latest update in my efforts…

[Ironic Note: While this site is responsive, the Google Trends graph, above, which shows relative search-volume for “EPUB” has fallen back to summer 2012 levels, may not display correctly on a phone or similar-sized device.] As it became clear to the IDPF that publishers weren’t going to give up on a crafted, beautiful, printable page, they added support for fixed-layout pages to EPUB. Publishers had said they wanted a single deliverable format that did it…

The comment period has closed on the US Access Board’s NPRM for the refresh of Section 508. This article reviews the 17 (out of 126) comments that mention PDF/UA. I’ve grouped… Reviewing PDF/UA-related comments on the Section 508 NPRM

EPUB, the latest much-touted “replacement” for PDF as the world’s electronic document format, appears to have peaked, and is now in the process of returning to earth. That is, according… Has EPUB peaked?

And who might beat Apple and Adobe to it? It’s pretty easy to visualize what support for tagged PDF on mobile devices might look like, because the feature already exists… iOS Safari’s Reader View… when will it support PDF?

Now in its 5th year, and updated annually, this post continues to track document file-format popularity as measured by way of Google’s “filetype:” search. Note that in 2014 I added EPUB,… The 8 most popular document formats on the Web in 2015

As of October 1, 2014, a significant change for me. After four years I’m leaving the Board of the PDF Association (a volunteer position), to become the organization’s first Executive Director.… Executive Director of the PDF Association

An organization in which I’m rather heavily involved, the PDF Association, is hosting two educational events for IT executives this December, in Washington DC and New York City. PDF Day is… “PDF Day” for IT managers and executives